Tom French

Tom French's collections Touching the Bones (2001), The Fire Step (2009) and Midnightstown (2014) are published by The Gallery Press. In 2015 his poem 'West' was awarded The Dermot Healy International Poetry Prize. His echapbooks The Night Ahead (2013) and Taking the Oath (2015) are published by www.smithereenspress.com, and he became the 20th recipient of the annual Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Award for Poetry from the University of St Thomas Center for Irish Studies, St Paul, Minnesota in 2016.